Patchface notably talks like Aeron and Euron and is at the wall. Euron wants to cause an apocalypse. How would he ever bring down the wall while he literally on the other end of the continent tho? Why couldn't Euron warg into Patchface
I can't put in my two cents regarding book Varys, due to limited knowledge, but a detail that I always loved in the show was Varys' defense of King's Landing. Varys, from the very start served no king, he served the realm. But he stayed true to the mad king to the bitter end. Why? He could have told Aerys to open the gates in hopes to gain favour with the new king but for once he told the truth. Well, Varys was very much aware of all the events that transpired at the trident, and knew that the Targaryen dinasty was at an end. He knew that Tywin was coming to King's Landing, and going to destroy the city in the process, killing tens of thousands of innocents. But, he also knew that Robert had been injured at the Trident, and that he had sent Ned Stark to deal with the Mad King in his place. Varys had no hope of defending the city foorever, and he knew it, but it was more than possible to hold down the fort long enough for the Quiet Wolf to get there, and give the revolution a more peaceful ending. So he told the truth, and protected the people, as he always had. Or tried.
Where is all of this info located? I've only read up to dance with dragons. Is this stuff covered more in the prequel book series or did i read this info and brain dumb it? I obviously remember some of this stuff like bit about the first men and the andals but not a lot else.
I think Rhaenyra and Daemon will still have an affair.. Harwin had her because Daemon wasn't around.. As soon as Daemon is back I think he'd still be intimate with Rhaenyra
I honestly would love more videos like this, picking less known but interesting book only characters and giving a small deep dive on them (with some added lore for the other tyrells also allowing you to add little bits of lore about said character's family)
What people miss about this concept is that Aegon could’ve actually grown up to be a good man if he’d been betrothed to Rhaenyra and she had actually made an effort to be in his life.
I hadn’t really been that interested in the Wall/The North previously, but revisiting ASOIAF has piqued my interest in the 19 castles. It’s such an interesting element to the lore and I had incorrectly assumed they were all built and garrisoned at the same time. They really need to make ASOIAF into an animated series, they could cover so much more ground that way
I don't see how the greens wouldn't have support of the lanisters because the Lannisterrs are still going to ve treated poorly by viserys at the hunt. why wouldn't aegon be able to make babies with rheanyra when, he is a literal horndog baby maker. and why would rheanyra have to make babies with strong and risk her kid's, her lives when she doesn't have to. even if she didn't like aegon she probably would and xan make babies with him. the greens would not sit back as aegon is getting cuked, and their influence stolen. lords like house baratheon, lanister and reach lords. would have some leway in allegence if they have a good enough pretext and something to gain from the usurpation.
I agree the Dance of the dragons still happens due to an assassination orchestrated by either Damon or the Greens but I think it's an overall happier timeline. With your timeline I think the strong bastards would be betrothed to Helena's kids to keep the Targaryen Genes in house and prevent future conflict.
8:25 why do you assume she wouldnt have any bastards in the 10 years of waiting for aegon to come of age? She would have either been forced to not sleep with anyone for them tens years ( which seems nearly impossible to do as shown with cole, daemon, and strong ) Or would have to been taking incredible amounts of moontea to stop any pregnancies. And with either of those outcomes i dont see the greens/hightowers would be ok nor would accept this behavior from rheanrya. I feel the same thing would playout, they would try to remove rheanrya from being on the throne by having aegon press his claim of being the first born boy
If Aegon II had married Rhaenyra and Viserys still kept Rhaenrya as the "Heir"... Otto would probably have Rhaenrya killed so Aegon could be the one to actually sit on the "throne" instead of being king consort and then you could say House Hightower would be ruling Westeros through Aegon.
Possibly a hot take, but I welcome the Dance and the Hightower's part in it. It's what Westeros needed to reclaim their lands from the Dragon Overlords. Have them kill off all their dragons themselves, and reclaim their lands with a non-Targaryen (albeit Robert does have some Targ lineage) on the throne.
Always makes me laugh when Aemond says he’d marry Helaena if Alicent had betrothed them…to “keep our Velaryon blood pure.” I want to say to him, “Dude! You’re half Hightower; your ‘Velaryon blood’ is ALREADY TAINTED.”
They don't talk about blood purity in absolute terms because there aren't actual pure blood Valyrians in this generation. Aemond marrying Helaena would preserve the blood purity they currently have. That's what he means.
A few points...Harwin would still die he was ahead of Larys in Succession and larys wanted to be the head of his house. Two if Harwin wasn't and he was still with rhaenyra she would most likely be infertile. its implied that mood tea when used has a chance of causing long term pregnancy and fertile issues that heavy used would lead to her not being able to conceive. Which would make it even more easier for her to be usurped.
It ends up a Tommen Margaery book situation. Aegon likely does eventually end up being the one to sit the throne, but after years of growing up heeding Rhaenyra’s advice, she would be the ruler in truth.
considering they haven't even shown Daeron yet, im not wholly convinced they'll include Dalton. his story mostly takes place in the westerlands and idk if they'd bother to show that in HOTD. Would be really nice to have a scene in which Otto tries making overtures to him but gets rejected tho
